LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Engine-Room
The two 40-h.p. Diesel engines on board the Violet Armstrong, the 46-feet Watson cabin motor life-boat, stationed at Appledore, North Devon, in 1938. The big black pipes are the exhaust! running up to the funnel.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kitty
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 12.20 on the afternoon of the 1st of May, 1955, the Formby coastguard telephoned that a boat had been reported in dis- tress and making heavy weather in the Rock Channel. At 12^.30 the life-boat Edmund and Mary...
Lifesaving with class
Part of a lifeguard’s role is to prevent accidents before they happen by giving safety advice – usually on the beach, but sometimes in the heart of the city …
'Help, help,’ shouts an 11-year-old girl to her friend....
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (10)
JULY 9TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. An aeroplane had come down in the sea off Milford-on-Sea, but no trace of her could be found. She is believed to have sunk with her pilot.-Rewards, £3 18s..
The King's Courtesy to a Brave Life-Boat Man
WHILE the King was afloat in April last j off the Scilly Islands with Mr. Dorrien- ! Smith, the President of the Scilly Isles Branch of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, in the latter's steam- launch, Mr. Dorrien-Smith was...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1872
CAPTAIN HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G., R.N., in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide second...
Category: Meetings
September
Launches 59. Lives rescued 46.
SEPTEMBER 3RD.- WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 7.50 P.M. information was received from the naval authorities at Portland, through the coastguard, that three trawlers or drifters were ashore between St....
Category: Services
M.B.E. for Scottish Honorary Secretary.
In the Birthday Honours Mr. George Norrie Craighead was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for his work as honorary secretary of the life-boat station at Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. He is now serving in the R.A.F., and his wife...
Category: Articles
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (7)
On the 19th November, 1939, the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat rescued the crew of two of the smack Charlotte Ellen of Tollesbury, and the crew of two of the barge Lorna, of London.
COXSWAIN CHARLES R. ELLIS was awarded the...
Category: Articles
Below- Delegates from British Virgin Islands
Below- Delegates from British Virgin Islands Search and Rescue (VISAR) study their agenda notes at the conference. - View image in PDF
Photo: Sebastian Studios. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs